Sarani

“The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction otherwise.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“But by the Vedas no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times. Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery, and would exist if all humanity forgot it, so is it with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical, and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits, were there before their discovery, and would remain even if we forgot them. The discoverers of these laws are called Rishis, and we honour them as perfected beings. I am glad to tell this audience that some of the very greatest of them were women. Here it may be said that these laws as laws may be without end, but they must have had a beginning. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end. Science is said to have proved that the sum total of cosmic energy is always the same. Then, if there was a time when nothing existed, where was all this manifested energy?”
― Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.”
― Swami Vivekananda, The complete works of Swami Vivekananda